SiriusXM Upgrades its Jazz at Lincoln Center Studios with Avid Audio Solutions to Produce Live Broadcasts
November 13 2019 - 9:00AM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced that long-time customer
SiriusXM Satellite Radio has upgraded its Jazz at Lincoln Center
(JALC) mixing and recording studios with Avid audio hardware and
software solutions for its popular live music broadcasts on radio
and online streaming. The satellite radio broadcasting company has
upgraded its workflow with Pro Tools® | HDX systems, Avid S6
control surfaces, and Pro Tools | MTRX audio interfaces. The
upgrade gives Rob Macomber, SiriusXM’s Grammy® and Emmy®
award-winning chief engineer of the studios at JALC, the sound
quality, reliability and flexibility he needs to mix, record and
produce the JALC broadcasts enjoyed by millions of jazz fans.
JALC is a part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in
New York City, along with the New York Philharmonic and the
Metropolitan Opera. JALC records and produces live broadcasts from
its three main venues — the 1,233-seat Rose Theater, The Appel Room
with its backdrops of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, and
the intimate Dizzy’s Club. With more than 3,000 live-to-internet
broadcasts produced to date, Macomber was one of the first
engineers to mix live broadcasts “in the box” using Pro Tools and
Avid control surfaces. The success and reliability of his Avid
workflow gave SiriusXM the confidence to keep things within the
Avid family when it decided to upgrade its two studios with
redundant Pro Tools | HDX systems and dual Avid S6 control
surfaces.
Comparing Avid S6 to the previous generations of Avid solutions,
Rob Macomber said, “When working on live shows, it’s important to
have as much information in front of me as possible, and right off
the bat, the S6 offered 20 times more information on its displays
than I could ever see on the ICON.”
SiriusXM also added Pro Tools | MTRX audio interfaces to handle
monitoring in the studios as well as front-end preamplification and
A/D conversion for Dizzy’s Club. Macomber can remotely control the
preamps and routing of MTRX in the club directly from his Avid S6
surfaces.
Macomber explains, “We have just installed a 40-channel Avid
MTRX box in Dizzy’s. We really go for a non-colored, pristine,
clean sound here. The converters and the preamps on the MTRX are
stunning on the front end, and on the back end, converting back to
analog for monitoring is much wider and deeper.”
Macomber’s unique “in-the-box” workflow not only delivers fail
safe live-to-broadcast reliability via redundant Pro Tools systems,
it also enables him to easily remix live recordings for subsequent
release using the same setup — something that has proved very
useful to Macomber for JALC’s current campaign of releasing 100
records over the next five years on its Blue Engine Records
label.
“The upgrade that Macomber implemented for the SiriusXM/Jazz at
Lincoln Center studios builds on their existing workflow, giving
them a new level of functionality,” said Rob D’Amico, Director of
Product Marketing at Avid. “SiriusXM is able to create templates
that enable them to move between the studios and have identical
workflows including plugins, layouts, routing and more – something
they couldn’t do with a broadcast console – giving them more
flexibility and saving valuable time and money.”
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